UNDERRATED: 'How It's Made'

A fixture on the Science Channel, there's something strangely meditative about this program's steady diet of bustling factories churning out random ephemera, including artificial eyes, scuba gear and hockey skates. In its soothing world, manufacturing jobs have never been outsourced, everyone's hours are fair, and a perfectly assembled product rolls off the line every time. Short of the Rose Parade, this may be TV's best hangover remedy.

A fixture on the Science Channel, there's something strangely meditative about this program's steady diet of bustling factories churning out random ephemera, including artificial eyes, scuba gear and hockey skates. In its soothing world, manufacturing jobs have never been outsourced, everyone's hours are fair, and a perfectly assembled product rolls off the line every time. Short of the Rose Parade, this may be TV's best hangover remedy.

A fixture on the Science Channel, there's something strangely meditative about this program's steady diet of bustling factories churning out random ephemera, including artificial eyes, scuba gear and hockey skates. In its soothing world, manufacturing jobs have never been outsourced, everyone's hours are fair, and a perfectly assembled product rolls off the line every time. Short of the Rose Parade, this may be TV's best hangover remedy.